Rape victim receives 101 lashes for becoming pregnant
Dean Nelson |
The London Daily Telegraph
| Jan. 25, 2010
The girl's father was also fined and warned the
family would be branded outcasts from their
village if he did not pay.
According to human rights activists, the girl,
who was quickly married after the attack, was
divorced weeks later after medical tests
revealed she was pregnant.
Her rapist was pardoned by the elders. She told
the newspaper the rapist had "spoiled" her life.
Reconsidering the Suez Campaign
Caroline Glick |
The Jerusalem Post
| Dec. 18, 2009
...Western failure to stop Iran will convince the
Persian Gulf states that they cannot trust Western
security guarantees and are best served by developing
their own nuclear arsenals. All semblance of a
nuclear nonproliferation regime will be cast to
the seven winds...
...a significant constituency in Europe believes the
time has come to act militarily against Iran's nuclear
installations. Second it tells us that influential
voices in France have lost patience with Obama.
Sarkozy himself all but accused Obama of living
in Fantasy Land at the UN Security Council meeting
four months ago, in light of Obama's support for
global nuclear disarmament and his cavalier attitude
towards Iran's nuclear program.
Diary that helped expose Stalin's famine displayed
Raphael G. Satter |
Breitbart
| Nov. 13, 2009
...As starvation and cannibalism spread across Ukraine,
Soviet authorities exported more than a million tons
of grain to the West, using the money to build factories
and arm its military....
...Stalin's totalitarian regime tightly controlled the
flow of information out of the U.S.S.R., and many
Moscow-based foreign correspondents—some of whom
had pro-Soviet sympathies—refused to believe Jones'
reporting.
The New York Times' Walter Duranty, a Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist, dismissed Jones' article
as a scare story.
Freedom of the press ought to belong to all... not just to approved 'journalists'
Robert Niles |
The Online Journalism Review
| Oct. 16, 2009
The FTC this month published new regulations
on the disclosure of advertiser-sponsored messages
which could force bloggers and other independent
publisher to publicly disclose every book, CD or
sporting event admission that they receive in the
course of their work, or face thousands of dollars
in fines. Yet the FTC explicitly exempted offline,
established media publishers from the new regulations.
The Internet has fulfills the Founders' promise of
a free press to the people. No longer is "freedom
of the press" limited to an elite few, as was the
case in Mencken's day. People who have devoted their
careers to reporting and publishing news should
welcome this functional expansion of the First
Amendment, providing us millions of new potential
allies, engaged in our communities. A handful of
clueless bureaucrats in the FTC should not be
empowered to stand in their way.
All-Important Relationships
Greg Garrison |
The Washington Post
| Sep. 18, 2009
..."Religion is, I think, one of the biggest
hindrances to finding God," Lotz said. "God
described Abraham as a friend. . . . I want
to know God in a relationship that one day he
will describe as a friendship. God loves you
and wants to know you. He's calling you to a
personal relationship..."
"...You can't develop it through a pastor or spouse.
You have to develop it firsthand," she said.
"Within the church, I feel people are just
rocking along and afraid to say what they
experience isn't satisfying. . . . There are
a lot of believers in exile. They've been
so hurt by God's people, they don't go to
church. They run away from God's people,
and they throw God out."
UNESCO Sex-Ed Program...[for] Kids
Windsor Genova |
All Headline News
| Aug. 27, 2009
...The United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is recommending the
voluntary teaching of sexuality education, including
masturbation and aphrodisiacs, starting at age five
to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted diseases.
...children are divided into age groups and each group
will have corresponding sexuality education topics.
Kids age 5 to 8 will be taught what masturbation is
while those age 9 to 12 will learn the positive and
negative effects of aphrodisiacs.
At age 12 to 15, children will learn abortion and
its safety. Those age 15 to 18 will be taught on
advocating the right to and access to safe abortion.
Sometimes it isn't racism
Mark Steyn |
The Washington Times
| Jul. 27, 2009
...The president of the United States may be reluctant to
condemn Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or Venezuela's
President Hugo Chavez or that guy in Honduras without
examining all the nuances and footnotes, but sometimes
there are outrages so heinous that even the famously
nuanced must step up to the plate and speak truth to
power. And thank goodness the leader of the Free World
had the guts to stand up and speak truth to Cambridge
Police Sgt. James Crowley...
...A black president, a black governor and a black mayor
all agree with a black Harvard professor that he was
racially profiled by a white-Latino-black police team
headed by a cop who teaches courses in how to avoid
racial profiling.
CanadaCare sends baby to US for treatment
Ed Morrissey |
HotAir.com
| Jun. 29, 2009
...why wasn’t there a NICU bed for the child in the entire
nation of Canada? The government of Canada won’t pay for
more. They don’t exist to expand supply to meet demand;
their single-payer system exists to ration care as a
cost-saving mechanism. In a free-market system, supply
expands to meet demand, which is why Canada could subcontract
out to a US hospital for capacity.
Eurabia Has A Capital: Rotterdam
Sandro Magister |
Chiesa Press
| May 19, 2009
...Holland is an extraordinary test case. It is the country
in which individual license is the most extensive – to the
point of permitting euthanasia on children – in which the
Christian identity is most faded, in which the Moslem presence
is growing most boldly...
Here, entire neighborhoods look as if they have been lifted
from the Middle East, here stand the largest mosques in
Europe, here parts of sharia law are applied in the courts
and theaters, here many of the women go around veiled,
here the mayor is a Muslim, the son of an imam.
The last thing this country needs is a pirate raid on the wealth creators
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
The Daily Mail
| Apr. 26, 2009
...The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent.
It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid
by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not
50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest
tax rate on earned income of any developed country.
I write this article because I fear the inevitable exodus of
the talent that can dig us out of the hole we find ourselves
in. It is inevitable, given that other countries are bidding
for entrepreneurs....
Study: Wages rose after immigration raids
Staff |
The Wall Street Journal
| Mar. 19, 2009
...Noting that the plants raided were back in production within
five months, Jerry Kammer of the Center for Immigration Studies
said there was "good evidence" that the number of U.S.-born workers
increased, concluding that the plants "could operate without the
presence of illegal workers," The Hill reported...
...The study estimated about 23 percent of the plants'
employees weren't authorized to work in the United States,
the Washington publication said.
Iran threatened with economic meltdown
James Melik |
BBC World News
| Feb. 27, 2009
...Cash rolled in when the price of oil was above $140 a barrel and
the country amassed huge foreign currency reserves, but with the price
falling to around $40, that revenue has dried up accordingly.
For the first time since the Islamic revolution in 1979, Iranians
will turn away from geopolitics and focus instead on the state of
their economy when they go to the polls in June. ...
SWAT team searches gun-rights supporters
Steven Greenhut|
The Orange County Register
| Jan. 13, 2009
At the board meeting today, Orange County deputies searched gun-rights
supporters, especially those wearing CCW buttons, according to those
who attended the meeting. Although Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said she
would let the permits expire rather than revoke them, her real disdain
for freedom is shown by the presence of the SWAT team and the heavyhanded
searches of law-abiding residents who wanted to attend the board meeting.
Did the sheriff really think that gun supporters are somehow dangerous.
I’ve been to gun shows and gun events and have never felt safer.
Bankruptcy Doesn't Equal Death
Donald Boudreaux |
The Wall Street Journal
| Dec. 11, 2008
...A government bailout of the Big Three keeps huge amounts of
productive
inputs in firms that can't use them efficiently. Forcing taxpayers to
subsidize the continued employment of gargantuan quantities of raw
materials, labor and capital goods in unproductive pursuits is a recipe
for economic stagnation. The popular and politically convenient myth
has matters backwards: The bigger the unprofitable firm, the more vital
it is that it be allowed to fail...
If Democracy Doesn't Work, Try Anarchy
Chuck Norris |
WorldNet Daily
| Nov. 17, 2008
Political protests are one thing, but when old-fashioned bullying
techniques that prompt fear of safety are used, activists have crossed
a line. There is a difference between respectful dissent and advocacy
for one's civil rights and demanding public endorsement of what many
still consider "unnatural sexual behavior" through hate language and
fear tactics. One thing is for sure: The days of peaceful marches like
those headed up by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. seem to be long gone.
Leave
the Land So We Won't Rape You
Nagla Al-Imam |
Al-Arabiya TV
| Oct. 31, 2008
...if [Arab women] are fair game for Arab men, there is nothing wrong
with Israeli women being fair game as well.
...In my view, the [Israeli women] do not have any right to respond.
The resistance fighters would not initiate such a thing, because their
moral values are much loftier than that. However if such a thing did
happen to them, the [Israeli women] have no right to make any demands,
because this would put us on equal terms – leave the land so we won't
rape you. These two things are equal.
US helicopters fired on while crossing Pakistani border
Bill Roggio |
The Long War Journal| Sept. 15, 2008
A US military incursion into the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of
South Waziristan was aborted after Pakistani troops opened fire on the
force, reports from Pakistan indicate.
At least two American helicopters were fired on after crossing the
Pakistani frontier near Angoor Adda in South Waziristan, Geo TV
reported. "The U.S. choppers came into Pakistan by just 100 to 150
meters at Angor Adda. Even then our troops did not spare them, opened
fire on them and they turned away,"
ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of
Senators, Big Donors
Brian Ross |
ABC News
| Aug. 27, 2008
Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera
crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of
Democratic Senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the
Brown Palace Hotel. Police on the scene refused to tell ABC lawyers the
charges against the producer, Asa Eslocker, who works with the ABC News
investigative unit. A cigar-smoking Denver police sergeant, accompanied
by a team of five other officers, first put his hands on Eslocker's
neck, then twisted the producers arm behind him to put on handcuffs.
The “Fairness” Doctrine: America In The Balance
Chris Adamo |
Men's News Daily
| Jul. 23, 2008
...For any concept of “fairness” to be substantiated, some individual
or cabal must hold sufficient power to arbitrate over which speech is
deemed “fair” and permissible, and which speech is not. And those on
the political left would gladly assume such control over the rest of
society with no intention of ever letting it go.
Revising HIV's History
Elizabeth Pennisi |
Science Now
| Jun. 28, 2008
Researchers had assumed that because most monkey species infected with
SIV don't get sick, the virus has been coevolving with the primates for
millions of years, allowing the host and pathogen to peaceably coexist.
If that were the case, the branching of the monkey family tree should
match the branching of the SIV tree. But last year, University of
Arizona, Tucson, graduate student Joel Wertheim, his adviser, Michael
Worobey, and colleagues found that not to be the case for the African
green monkey and its SIV. "The work suggested that the virus was not
millions of years old..."
...HIV-1 first entered humans about 1908, not 1931, as earlier analyses
with just the 1959 sample found. Her analysis also indicates that the
virus existed in low levels in humans until the middle of the 20th
century. "That matches the rise of population centers," Gemmel
explained, suggesting that urbanization around that time paved the way
for the AIDS epidemic...
4 Advances that Set News Back
Steve Boriss |
The Future of News
| May 14, 2008
Jefferson’s vision for news called for a multitude of voices, competing
in a freewheeling marketplace of ideas. By the end of his life in 1826,
he had watched news make steady progress toward this vision. French
historian Alexis de Tocqueville, in his book Democracy in America of
that time, marveled at the ability of individual newspapers to attract
and organize like-minded citizens into “Associations,” each
representing a different voice.
But, soon after his death, Jefferson’s vision for news not only
stalled, it reversed itself, and continued in the opposite direction
through most of the 20th century. Ironically, each of the 4 primary
causes of this reversal, outlined below, held promise to be a great
advance toward his vision.
Government Media Blitz to Attract Illegals Unveiled
Staff |
American Conservative Union
| Apr. 11, 2008
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently said, "We're inviting people
to come out of the shadows and take advantage of services."
Newsom could have said -- just as easily -- that he's inviting people
to come out of the shadows and take advantage of the taxpayers!
Believe it or not, the City of San Francisco just launched a $83,000
public relations campaign that will actively encourage waves of illegal
aliens to sneak across the border.
The Koran and Mein Kampf
Andrew Bostom |
andrewbostom.org
| Mar. 4, 2008
It is still possible, even today, for Muslims to view the Koran, which
they regard as valid for all time, as a licence to kill. And that is
exactly what happens. The Koran is worded in such a way that its
instructions are addressed to Muslims for eternity, which includes
today’s Muslims.
Snatching Defeat Away From Victory
Charles Krauthammer |
Townhall
| Feb. 22, 2008
...there is simply no denying the remarkable improvements in Iraq since
the surge began a year ago.
Unless you're a Democrat. As Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., put it, "Democrats
have remained emotionally invested in a narrative of defeat and retreat
in Iraq."
Witnesses: Cartel boss smuggled from the shadows
Staff |
The Brownsville Herald
| Jan. 15, 2008
The man federal authorities have identified as the Gulf Cartel’s
second-in-command of Reynosa operations led a double life, they said —
working officially to fight crime in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas
while actively committing it on the side.
Doubts over paternity of Jamie Lynn Spears' baby
Staff |
Sydney Herald Sun
| Dec. 26, 2007
It has been alleged the 16-year-old actress - who announced she is
expecting her first child with long-term boyfriend Aldridge earlier
this month - was having an affair with an older man on the set of her
Nickelodeon TV show Zoey 101.
The Spears family are allegedly desperate to keep the man's identity a
secret, and have paid Aldridge to pretend to be the father instead.
Israel haven for new Bahai world order
Jennie Matthew |
AFP
| Nov. 18, 2007
Given that Israel has among the most insecure yet heavily-armed borders
in the world in a region with no imminent prospect of disarmament, he
acknowledges a "certain irony" over the location of the Bahai
headquarters.
Parmar even sees Israel as a model for the Bahai world commonwealth.
"I love Israeli people for the fact that they are very united. Israel
wouldn't be a possibility if the Jewish people weren't united. We're
grateful to Israelis. We wouldn't be here without them," he said.
Doc, what’s up with snooping?
Michael Graham |
The Boston Herald
| Oct. 4, 2007
...They’re your kids, and they’re the National Security Agency of the
Nanny State. I found this out after my 13-year-old daughter’s annual
checkup. Her pediatrician grilled her about alcohol and drug abuse. Not
my daughter’s boozing. Mine. “The doctor wanted to know how much you
and mom drink, and if I think it’s too much,” my daughter told us
afterward, rolling her eyes in that exasperated 13-year-old way. “She
asked if you two did drugs, or if there are drugs in the house.”
“What!” I yelped. “Who told her about my stasher, I mean, ‘It’s an
outrage!’” I turned to my wife. “You took her to the doctor. Why didn’t
you say something?”
She couldn’t, she told me, because she knew nothing about it. All these
questions were asked in private, without my wife’s knowledge or
consent...
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Mark Steyn |
The Orange County Register
| Sep. 16, 2007
...We should beware anyone who seeks to explain 9/11 by using the words
"each other": They posit a grubby equivalence between the perpetrator
and the victim – that the "failure to understand" derives from the
culpability of both parties. The 9/11 killers were treated very well in
the United States: They were ushered into the country on the high-speed
visa express program the State Department felt was appropriate for
young Saudi males...
...when you raise a generation in the great wobbling blancmange of
Deval Patrick-style cultural relativism – nothing is any better or any
worse than anything else; if people are "mean and nasty" to us, it's
only because we didn't sing enough Barney the Dinosaur songs at them –
in such a world a certain percentage of its youth will have a great
gaping hole where their sense of identity should be. And into that hole
you can pour something fierce and primal and implacable...
The Fate of Camelot
Ernest W. Lefever |
The Washington Times
| Aug. 28, 2007
...JFK was shot by a frustrated communist, Lee Harvey Oswald, acting
alone. Everyone agrees that Dallas was a profound shock to the American
people, and to millions abroad who underestimated the strength of
American democracy or the resilience of its people...
...After Kennedy's death, "liberals recast their understanding of
reform from an instrument of progress to an instrument for punishment."
Jimmy Carter's "Punitive Liberalism" was at odds with "the
forward-looking optimism" of JFK. Finally, in 1980 the conservatives
led by Ronald Reagan seized "the mantle of optimism and progress that
had been abandoned by the liberals..."
Using Avoidance Manoeuvres
Lorrie Goldstein |
Toronto Sun
| Jul. 26, 2007
...Incensed by calls from Toronto Mayor David Miller and Ontario
Attorney General Michael Bryant for a "handgun ban" in the wake of an
outbreak of gun and gang violence last weekend, including the murder of
an 11-year-old boy, Ron asked, "Are they dense? Are they stubborn? Do
they have some kind of vested interest in not solving violent crime?"
My answer is "no" to all three. I believe politicians propose
simplistic solutions like "gun bans" because it's easier than telling
people the truth -- that fighting gun crime is hard.
Calling for "banning handguns," particularly when you're asking a
Conservative government in Ottawa to do it while you're a left-wing
Toronto mayor or a Liberal provincial attorney general, is just an
easy, partisan way to avoid responsibility and duck the issue. This is
also true for politicians on the right, who talk only about passing
tougher laws against gun crime...
Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific
scrutiny
James M. Taylor |
Chicago Sun-Times
| Jun. 30, 2007
...Many of the assertions Gore makes in his movie, ''An Inconvenient
Truth,'' have been refuted by science, both before and after he made
them. Gore can show sincerity in his plea for scientific honesty by
publicly acknowledging where science has rebutted his claims...
For example, Gore claims that Himalayan glaciers are shrinking and
global warming is to blame. Yet the September 2006 issue of the
American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate reported,
"Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global
warming alarmists who recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and
that global warming was to blame."
'Have sex, do drugs,' speaker tells students
Bob Unruh |
WorldNet Daily
| May 21, 2007
"Why I am going to take that position is because you are going to do it
anyway," he continued. "I think as a psychologist and health educator,
it is more important to educate you in a direction that you might
actually stick to. So, I am going to stay mostly on with the sex side
because that is the area I know more about. I want to encourage you to
all have healthy, sexual behavior."
...WND also has reported on similar assemblies that have been used by
schools to promote homosexuality, including one where parents were
banned from the event, and a second where WND reported school officials
ordered their 14-year-old freshman class into a "gay" indoctrination
seminar after having them sign a confidentiality agreement promising
not to tell their parents...
New evidence against Van Anraat
Goran Baba Ali and Sebastiaan Gottlieb |
Radio Netherlands
| Apr. 4, 2007
...In December last year, Frans van Anraat was sentenced to 15 years in
jail. The court in The Hague found him guilty of supplying materials
for chemical weapons to the Saddam Hussein regime in the 1980s. He was
acquitted of complicity in genocide because he reportedly did not know
that Saddam Hussein intended to use poison gas on the Iraqi
population...
On 7 May 1990, Frans van Anraat wrote a letter to former dictator
Saddam Hussein in which he requested Iraqi nationality. "Dear Mr
President," he wrote, I first came to your country in 1977 and lived in
Baghdad for three years. I have come to love your people and your
country, which I now consider my second country. I am proud of what I
did for this country." According to a letter from the Iraqi secret
service to the head of the military industry dated 8 January 1992
(click here for translation), what Frans van Anraat did for Iraq was:
"supply banned and difficult to obtain chemical substances, at great
risk to himself. And at reasonable prices compared to earlier quotes
from other companies."
Missing Link?
Staff Editorial |
Investor's Business Daily
| Mar. 15, 2007
...War critics argue that Saddam Hussein had little to do with
terrorism, and nothing to do with al-Qaida. Since there was no
Iraq-al-Qaida link, they say, the U.S. should never have invaded to get
rid of Hussein, no matter how evil he was. But something interesting
has come out of the interrogations of the lead al-Qaida suspects at
Guantanamo.
In particular, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confirmed what was suspected all
along: He was the driving force and chief planner behind 15 years of
al-Qaida terrorism — nearly 30 attacks and plots in all. That includes
9/11, the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl and, much earlier, the 1993
bombing of the World Trade Center.
If so, it further cements the evidence that Iraq was, at minimum, a
willing partner of al-Qaida's in the decadelong burst of terrorism that
culminated in 9/11...
Abusing Intelligence
Michael Tanji |
The the Weekly Standard
| Feb. 16, 2007
...Intelligence is a national security decision-making tool, not a ball
to be taken out and kicked about when cheap political points need to be
scored. Yet now that the Department of Defense Inspector General's
Office has released its report on the intelligence-related activities
of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, that is exactly what is
going on.
Leaks of secret intelligence documents are curious affairs. The general
public rarely gets to see the full text of intelligence assessments
because, as prolific as they can be, leakers gain no benefit from
revealing the full picture. Doing so would reveal, as the recent key
judgments of the national intelligence estimate on Iraq showed, that
there is often a ray of light amongst all the doom and gloom....
Is Hollywood too timid for the war on terror?
Andrew Klavan |
The Los Angeles Times
| Jan. 26, 2007
...The outcome of our battle against the demographic, political and
military upsurge of a hateful theology and its oppressive political
vision will determine the fate of freedom in this century.
Television — more populist, hungrier for content and less dependent on
foreign audiences — reflects this fact with shows such as "24" and "The
Unit." But at the movies, all we're getting is home-front angst and the
occasional "Syriana," in which "moderate" Islam is thwarted by evil
American interests. But the notion that this war is about our moral
failings is comfort fantasy, pure and simple. It soothes us with the
false idea that, if we but mend ourselves, the scary people will leave
us alone...
Airport
Security and Racial Profiling
Walter E. Williams |
Capitalism Magazine
| Dec. 20, 2006
...It is clear, whether we like it or not, or want to say it or not,
that there is a strong correlation between terrorist acts and being a
Muslim, and being black and high rates of crime. That means if one is
trying to deter terrorism and in some cases capture a criminal, he
would expend greater investigatory resources on Muslims and blacks. A
law-abiding Muslim who's given extra airport screening or a black who's
stopped by the police is perfectly justified in being angry, but with
whom should he be angry? I think a Muslim should be angry with those
who've made terrorism and Muslim synonymous and blacks angry with those
who've made blacks and crime synonymous. The latter is my response to
the insulting sounds of car doors locking sometimes when I'm crossing a
street in downtown Washington, D.C., or when taxi drivers pass me by...
Iran Offers to Share Experience and Achievements With
Hamas
Julie Stahl |
CNSNews.com
| Oct 13, 2006
...Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal meets regularly with
Ahmadinejad and has pledged his support to the Iranian leader in the
event that Iran is attacked by the West.
...Ahmadinejad offered to transfer Iranian "experience and
achievements" to Hamas. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Iran's elite
commando unit, was responsible for training Hizballah in Lebanon...
[Palestinian Interior Minister Said] Sayam is quoted as saying that the
victory of one Islamic state is the victory of all Muslims and they
should take pride in the victory of Hizballah, Hamas and the
"remarkable success of Iran in various domains."
Ted
Turner: Give Muslim Extremists What They Want to Stop Terrorism
Brad Wilmouth |
News Busters
| Sept 30, 2006
..."you don't win people over by bombing them, you win them over by
being friends with them," and soon recommended giving Muslim extremists
what they want as a solution to terrorism. Turner, who in 2002 claimed
that Israelis were guilty of "terrorism" against the Palestinians, on
Friday's show advocated "being more even-handed in our dealing with the
Palestinians and the Israelis," negotiating peace in the Middle East
"so we can stop at some point furnishing military aid to Israel," and
"pulling our military forces out of the Middle East." Turner labelled
these moves as "things that they've asked of us" and "things that the
Muslim extremists and a lot of other Muslims, too, would like to see us
do..."
Media
Blame Bush for Clinton Legacy
Roger Aronoff |
Accuracy In Media
| Aug 15, 2006
...Clinton bombed Iraq for several days in December of 1998 with no
Congressional or United Nations approval...
...waged war against Serbia in violation of the War Powers Act, without
the approval of Congress or the U.N., using NATO as an offensive rather
than defensive force. That violated the NATO treaty. Today, because of
the Clinton policy, a Muslim state is being constructed in the Serbian
province of Kosovo...
...was snookered by the North Korean communists, after providing them
with massive amounts of aid, while they cheated on their promise to
abandon their nuclear weapons program...
...wasted eight years with the so-called Oslo process, during which
Israel and the Palestinians were supposed to make peace, and he
entertained Yasser Arafat repeatedly at the White House. In the end,
Israel was under attack again and the region was ablaze in a second
intifada. That is the situation that the Bush Administration inherited.
Looking for trouble, the thugs find it
Wesley Pruden |
The Washington Times
| July 14, 2006
...Daniel Ayalon, the Israeli ambassador to Washington, offered a
warning to Iran in blunt, forceful language yesterday at a session with
reporters at the National Press Club: "They are playing with fire, and
will bear the consequences" [if kidnapped soldiers end up in Iran or
Syria].This is not the usual diplo-speak, but a warning in language
that thugs and primitives better understand...
...Most of the rest of the world is, as usual, either trying to make
Israel the villain, or trying to sleep. The United Nations Security
Council, ever on the scout for ways to equivocate in the face of moral
challenge, would have adopted a resolution condemning Israel yesterday
but for a veto by the United States. Four other nations, displaying the
irresolution that is the courage of cowards, abstained. Israel's
neighbors, who have the most to lose if the radicalized "religion of
peace" prevails in the Middle East, displayed their usual manliness...
The Real Iraq
Amir Taheri |
Commentary
| Jun. 6, 2006
...there are those in the media and the think tanks who wish the Iraq
enterprise to end in tragedy, as a just comeuppance for George W. Bush.
Others, prompted by noble sentiment, so abhor the idea of war that they
would banish it from human discourse before admitting that, in some
circumstances, military power can be used in support of a good cause...
...a vast network of independent media has emerged in Iraq, including
over 100 privately-owned newspapers and magazines and more than two
dozen radio and television stations. To anyone familiar with the state
of the media in the Arab world, it is a truism that Iraq today is the
place where freedom of expression is most effectively exercised...
US
Concerned About China's Military Buildup
Al Pessin |
VOA News
| May 23, 2006
...Assistant Secretary of Defense Peter Rodman says China appears to be
preparing to project its military power beyond its immediate
surroundings. "There are indications that they are thinking more
broadly and at the very beginnings, perhaps, of developing power
projection for other contingencies other than Taiwan," he said.
The report says such contingencies could involve conflicts over
territory or resources. Last year's report on China came to a similar
conclusion. But this year, the report adds that U.S. analysts have been
'surprised' by 'the pace and scope' of the modernization of China's
strategic forces. And Rodman says Chinese officials are also discussing
possible revisions in their defense doctrines, including their pledge
not to be the first to use nuclear weapons in any conflict.
Darfur a Quagmire to Avoid
Peter Wortihington |
Toronto Sun
| May 9, 2006
...Although related to the Mahdi of the siege of Gen. Charles "Chinese"
Gordon in 1884, Prime Minister Mahdi seemed moderate and unhappy about
the imposition of sharia law (amputations, public floggings and stoning
deaths for crimes) that provoked the rebellion in the south. No
international objections were forthcoming.
...It's foolhardy to send troops there. Waste money, if you like, by
supplying equipment for African peacekeepers but don't involve our
troops.
Sudan is a quagmire best left for African interlopers to solve.
Either that or declare war on the Khartoum government and back the
rebels of the south.
Protests Provide Boost to Democrats
Charles Hurt |
The Washington Times
| Apr 11, 2006
... "They say you should report to deport," Mr. Kennedy said of
conservatives and a growing number of union-backed liberals who oppose
granting citizenship to illegals. "I say report to become American
citizens." These rallies also have turned into Democratic recruitment
centers for reaching new voters...
...Yesterday, Mr. Tancredo said the protests reveal how powerful
illegal aliens have become in the U.S."Today's rallies show how
entrenched the illegal alien lobby has become over the last several
years," he said. "The iron triangle of illegal employers, foreign
governments and groups like La Raza puts tremendous pressure on our
elected officials to violate the desires of law-abiding Americans and
to grant amnesty..."
Lessons from Viet Nam: Don't Cut and Run!
Michael W. Cotter |
American Diplomacy
| Mar 20, 2006
...Although Vietnam and Iraq are different wars, in different times and
being fought for different reasons, there are parallels between them.
Whatever one's views of how and why we fought and are fighting them,
the manner of our departure from Vietnam and the scars it left both on
Americans who served there and the Vietnamese should provide a stern
warning as we try to disengage in Iraq. Whether the war in Iraq is
"winnable," whatever that word means, the Vietnam experience should
tell us that a precipitate withdrawal is almost certain to have very
serious consequences....
Don't mention Africa
Evelyn Gordon |
The Jerusalem Post
| Mar 8, 2006
...UNHCR instituted the cut because feeding 72,000 refugees 2,207
calories a day for one year costs $8.5 million - but as of January 1,
the agency had yet to receive a penny in donations for 2006. Not
knowing when more money might be forthcoming, it was trying to make
leftover supplies from 2005 last as long as possible. In mid-February,
the United States, Britain and Germany finally pledged a collective
$2.3m., but it is not known when that money will arrive - or where the
other $6.2m. will be found.
YET WEALTHY countries are clearly not short of disposable cash: Just
three days after the Times report appeared, the European Union managed
to scrounge up 120 million euros (about $143m.) in emergency aid for a
more deserving cause: the Palestinian Authority...
